No Plan B! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Sir, What if your work fails? || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)

Transcript

00:00You know, you fail because you set limits.

00:03You say, I'm going to invest only this much in this particular project.

00:08And having invested this much, if this project gives me what I desire, then I'll call it

00:12a success.

00:13Otherwise, I'll quit the project.

00:15That's what you call as failure.

00:16Why do you ever quit the project?

00:19Tell me.

00:20If the project is worthy enough, stay put.

00:22Don't leave.

00:23I've had so many setbacks, I could have quit maybe 100 times.

00:27You need that love.

00:29You need to have something worthwhile to do in life.

00:32And then thoughts of success and failure do not matter so much.

00:35Obviously, you want to succeed.

00:37But success then does not remain the central determinant.

00:42The central determinant is love.

00:44Irrespective of success, I will do this because I am choiceless.

00:49I have nothing else to do.

00:51Vedanta calls it Nirvikalpata.

00:53There's nothing else.

00:54No vikalp.

00:55Only this is there.

00:56No plan B.

00:58And when there is no plan B, then by hook or by crook, you made plan A succeed.